Re: debian-5.0.3 on ThinkPad A21e : dude, where's my RAM ?
On 2009-11-14 06:21 +0100, Ionreflex wrote:
> I've just installed a fresh debian on an old IBM ThinkPad A21e (see cpuz
> info in attachement) and I'm kinda bedazzled - in the wrong sense! - at how
> much an idle system seems to hog RAM : out of 256, half of it is always
> used...
It is used as a cache for files from the hard disk. The services
running on the system take only 17 Megabyte, as can be seen in the third
line of the "free" output:
> frosties:~# free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 256396 125280 131116 0 7908 99752
> -/+ buffers/cache: 17620 238776
> Swap: 369452 0 369452
This is absolutely fine.
Sven
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